今年9月に出版されるあたらしい本だそうです。
Bestselling Harvard psychology professor Pinker (The Blank Slate) investigates what the words we use tell us about the way we think. Language, he concludes, reflects our brain structure, which itself is innate. Similarly, the way we talk about things is rooted in, but not identical to, physical reality: human beings take the analogue flow of sensation the world presents to them and package their experience into objects and events. Examining how we do this, the author summarizes and rejects such linguistic theories as extreme nativism and radical pragmatism as he tosses around terms like content-locative and semantic reconstrual that may seem daunting to general readers. But Pinker, a masterful popularizer, illuminates this specialized material with homely illustrations. The difference between drinking from a glass of beer and drinking a glass of beer, for example, shows that the mind has the power to frame a single situation in very different ways. Separate chapters explore concepts of causality, naming, swearing and politeness as the tools with which we organize the flow of raw information. Metaphor in particular, he asserts, helps us entertain new ideas and new ways of managing our affairs. His vivid prose and down-to-earth attitude will once again attract an enthusiastic audience outside academia. (Sept.)
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Bestselling Harvard psychology professor Pinker (The Blank Slate) investigates what the words we use tell us about the way we think. Language, he concludes, reflects our brain structure, which itself is innate. Similarly, the way we talk about things is rooted in, but not identical to, physical reality: human beings take the analogue flow of sensation the world presents to them and package their experience into objects and events. Examining how we do this, the author summarizes and rejects such linguistic theories as extreme nativism and radical pragmatism as he tosses around terms like content-locative and semantic reconstrual that may seem daunting to general readers. But Pinker, a masterful popularizer, illuminates this specialized material with homely illustrations. The difference between drinking from a glass of beer and drinking a glass of beer, for example, shows that the mind has the power to frame a single situation in very different ways. Separate chapters explore concepts of causality, naming, swearing and politeness as the tools with which we organize the flow of raw information. Metaphor in particular, he asserts, helps us entertain new ideas and new ways of managing our affairs. His vivid prose and down-to-earth attitude will once again attract an enthusiastic audience outside academia. (Sept.)
Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Pinkerの言語学３部作完結ですね。
The Language Instinct (Syntax)
Words and Rules (Syntax-Lexicon Interface)
The Stuff of Thought (Semantics and Pragmatics)
という構成で「３部作」になるらしいです。
この本のＣＤ版も出ています。
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Stuff-Thought-Steven-Pinker/dp/0143142585/ref=sr_1_11/250-3510565-8568224?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1189101339&sr=8-11
The Language Instinct (Syntax)
Words and Rules (Syntax-Lexicon Interface)
The Stuff of Thought (Semantics and Pragmatics)
という構成で「３部作」になるらしいです。
この本のＣＤ版も出ています。
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Stuff-Thought-Steven-Pinker/dp/0143142585/ref=sr_1_11/250-3510565-8568224?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1189101339&sr=8-11
The Stuff of Thoughtを購入して読んでます。前から見ると、結構認知言語学よりになってきている感がします。メタファーを強調していますし。構文交代の現象を扱った二章なんかは特に認知色が強いですね。現にうちの大学の認知言語学の授業でテキスト指定されました笑
でも、あいかわらずSapir-Whorfの仮説(言語決定論)などの言語観については厳しい批判を加えていますね。他にもPinkerを超えるNativistのFoderや語用論至上主義のDan Sperberなども辛辣に批判しています。あくまで思考のbuilding blockはuniversalだがその組み合わせ方はlanguage-specificということでしょうか。
でも、あいかわらずSapir-Whorfの仮説(言語決定論)などの言語観については厳しい批判を加えていますね。他にもPinkerを超えるNativistのFoderや語用論至上主義のDan Sperberなども辛辣に批判しています。あくまで思考のbuilding blockはuniversalだがその組み合わせ方はlanguage-specificということでしょうか。
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